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Aysel () Active Legion Member

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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:33 pm Post subject: Bespin Leia - My long term project
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I've been planning to do Bespin Leia for over a year now, gathering resources, screen shots and the general things one needs to have on hand when starting out on a project. Maggie was kind enough to send me the embroidery patterns she has, which I lined up and combined in photoshop to make one whole file. I plan to embroider this, despite the size of the project, each panel should only take me about a month to complete. My question is has anyone done a color chart for the embroidery? If so, would you be kind enough to email it to me. If not, it's fine there are some pictures that have good enough color for me to pull from.
forgot a question:
For those that have seen this costume personally, is the embroidery shinny or matte? _________________
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Mieal Deneb (Rachel Orange) Active Legion Member

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Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:52 am Post subject:
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I too have plans for this one, but I have 3 Padmé gowns "in line" ahead of it. Did you ask Maggie which colors she used? I thought she mentioned it on her website?
I did see the costume in person, but that was before I joined the Rebel Legion and became such a costume accuracy freak! So, I don't remember. Sorry. _________________ ~Mieal |
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Aysel () Active Legion Member

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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:44 pm Post subject:
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I haven't asked Maggie which colors she used and I didn't find where (if she did) on the tips page. I've been guesstimating which colors where used by the more color saturated pics that I've found.
another question:
I have a piece of sheer white material. I'd like to know if it's sheer enough to pass for the cape, if it is I can start the embroidery now (which would be great) if not I can use it to practice on.
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Mieal Deneb (Rachel Orange) Active Legion Member

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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:23 pm Post subject:
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It's hard to say on the sheerness of it. The original sometimes looks really sheer and then sometimes doesn't look sheer at all. I guess it would be up to the Leia LCJ...I'd hate for you to spend so much time on the embroidery if it wasn't going to be right.  _________________ ~Mieal |
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Aysel () Active Legion Member

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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:31 pm Post subject:
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Mieal Deneb wrote: | It's hard to say on the sheerness of it. The original sometimes looks really sheer and then sometimes doesn't look sheer at all. I guess it would be up to the Leia LCJ...I'd hate for you to spend so much time on the embroidery if it wasn't going to be right.  |
which is why I'm not starting the embroidery until I hear whether this piece of material will work or not. _________________
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padawan_rachael (Rachael James) Rebel Legion Reserve

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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:48 pm Post subject:
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that's one of my fav of leia's outfits! i wish you luck _________________
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Aysel () Active Legion Member

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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:55 pm Post subject:
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Can I please get the opinion of the LCJ on this piece of material's sheerness. I'd really like to know if this is good or if I need to find something else. _________________
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RebelPrincess (Katharyn Preston) Rebel Legion Reserve

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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:18 am Post subject:
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Haha! I started on this one as well. Maybe we can work on them together sometime . |
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Aysel () Active Legion Member

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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:23 am Post subject:
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RebelPrincess wrote: | Haha! I started on this one as well. Maybe we can work on them together sometime . |
nice! yea getting together to work on this would be fun _________________
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 2:21 am Post subject:
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Social sewing is a grand thing indeed. I'm almost done drawing the embroidery pattern. I will upload a pic when I'm done. If you like it your more than welcome to use it.  |
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Aysel () Active Legion Member

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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:17 am Post subject:
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RebelPrincess wrote: | Social sewing is a grand thing indeed. I'm almost done drawing the embroidery pattern. I will upload a pic when I'm done. If you like it your more than welcome to use it.  |
I have the embroidery pattern that Maggie from padawansguide used if you'd like me to send that to you _________________
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Miana (Rachel Williams) Active Legion Member

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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:02 am Post subject:
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The standards call for an "Off-white cloak in a non-shiny fabric with a sheer non-shiny lining the same color as the tunic and pants and a copper metallic trim. The off-white fabric of the cloak is decorated in a stylized, paisley-like pattern - a “scales” design with rosettes of varying sizes at the waist and hem in shades of yellow, pink, burgundy, and brown. Padded yoke with standing collar and metallic copper trim."
The sheerness of it would be fine, since there's a lining of some kind, but I can't tell from the photos if it's a pure white or an off-white. Quite honestly, if you can't find something more off-white, I personally wouldn't dock you for it as long as everything else is right, though not sure how the other 2 Leia judges feel on that. _________________ Retired LCJ, BCO, & BXO
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Aysel () Active Legion Member

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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:00 pm Post subject:
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Miana wrote: | The standards call for an "Off-white cloak in a non-shiny fabric with a sheer non-shiny lining the same color as the tunic and pants and a copper metallic trim. The off-white fabric of the cloak is decorated in a stylized, paisley-like pattern - a “scales” design with rosettes of varying sizes at the waist and hem in shades of yellow, pink, burgundy, and brown. Padded yoke with standing collar and metallic copper trim."
The sheerness of it would be fine, since there's a lining of some kind, but I can't tell from the photos if it's a pure white or an off-white. Quite honestly, if you can't find something more off-white, I personally wouldn't dock you for it as long as everything else is right, though not sure how the other 2 Leia judges feel on that. |
thank you for weighting in. The fabric is egg shell white, which I can easily dye if I need to. _________________
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:02 pm Post subject:
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Aysel wrote: | RebelPrincess wrote: | Social sewing is a grand thing indeed. I'm almost done drawing the embroidery pattern. I will upload a pic when I'm done. If you like it your more than welcome to use it.  |
I have the embroidery pattern that Maggie from padawansguide used if you'd like me to send that to you |
That's fantastic! I will use my own since I put quite a bit of time into it . Thank you very much though lady! We should have a photo shoot when we are done with them. |
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Aysel () Active Legion Member

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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:10 pm Post subject:
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RebelPrincess wrote: | Aysel wrote: | RebelPrincess wrote: | Social sewing is a grand thing indeed. I'm almost done drawing the embroidery pattern. I will upload a pic when I'm done. If you like it your more than welcome to use it.  |
I have the embroidery pattern that Maggie from padawansguide used if you'd like me to send that to you |
That's fantastic! I will use my own since I put quite a bit of time into it . Thank you very much though lady! We should have a photo shoot when we are done with them. |
coolness....I went back and checked and apparently the pattern I have is from surllygirl, if you want to compare hers to yours I can still send it along if you'd like. I still have to print it out and transfer it to my material, which is why I'm waiting on more word from the judges (which I really apperciate Miana weighing in but I don't want to get to sewing to later find out that I should have used different fabric ) I'd like to get with you about the colors your choosing cause I've gone through my embroidery thread and I think I've got some pretty good choices, but I'd like a second set of eyes on this. _________________
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